Torn

Annetenna. It took me about 0.5 seconds to realize why I’d misspelled the word while writing it into a script. There once was a band named Annetenna, comprised of the former members of a band called Ednaswap. The principal songwriter and vocalist for both bands was Anne Preven. She wrote a song called Torn, later made famous by Natalie Imbruglia. That’s the version of the song that I heard first. I never really cared for it. Then, I heard an acoustic version performed by Ms. Preven. I completely fell in love with it. I loved it so much I put it in a short film I made back at York. Its story, and the emotion conveyed in that version, ran in parallel with everything I was trying to say. It’s funny how a different interpretation can entirely change your perspective on a song.

Advertisement